I have a bit of a thing for mini quilts and my wall in my craft room is starting to fill up but I couldn’t resist one more! Can you spot it? There is actually two projects using this new line of fabric on that wall!!

So here it is. My Live Life in Colour Mini Quilt. I picked 20 of the rainbow spectrum fabrics to surround the words. I wanted them to be kind of exploding out from the words in true colour burst style!

I love the little fun touches Shayla has incorporated into the fabrics. I really wanted to try to keep those within this project. So I was happy when I managed to fussy cut ‘Hello’ into the exact place I wanted it!

The words have been constructed with strips of fabric and then appliqued onto the dark background. Obviously I’ve gone for the British spelling of the word colour as I’m British! But you guys from across the pond could just omit the ‘U’.

The borders were added, and Yes, those are Y Seams at the corners. But seriously they shouldn’t be feared!

Deciding how to quilt a project is always fun. But, I always curse myself at this point for loving the rainbow spectrum as it often means I need to quilt with lots of different colours which means lots of thread changes! But it is so worth it!

People often ask me what brand of thread I use. Well to be honest I don’t stick to one particular brand, but I do have my favourites and the common theme is that they are all good quality threads. I love using Sulky, Aurifil and Guterman. I use a variety of weights and types: cotton; rayon; metallic and polyester.

I’ve worked like a crazy woman to get this pattern finished, so I’m happy to say if you want to make one of these for yourself, you can!!! Get the pattern HERE.

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Oh and I couldn’t resist using Good Vibes Only to make up a micro mini version of my Create Every Day pattern (which coincidentally is what I designed for the blog tour last year for Shayla’s Foundation range of fabric!).

To see more of the wonderful creations made with the fun Good Vibes Only fabric by others participating in this blog tour then click on the links below. There have already been some amazing projects shared already and more to come! Be sure also to check out the Good Vibes Only lookbookput together by Shayla. You can find out more about Shayla here:

Welcome to The Crafty Nomad Blog - a quilting blog in the UK. I'm Jo, the owner of The Crafty Nomad here in England. This is where you can keep up to date with the crafty happenings at The Crafty Nomad. I'll post pictures of my latest quilts and other crafting projects. They will be fun sewing tutorials and how to's. I might even feature some of my favourite quilting products! Some blog posts contain affiliate links. This just means that if you click them and buy the item I receive a tiny bit of commission helping me to continue to run this business and inspire you! You won’t pay any extra for the item.